We do our best to keep our site's comments troll- and spam-free, but there's always room for improvement. Our new comment reassignment feature allows your comment moderators to dole out warnings and suspensions, and explain why they did so.

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The system works like this: If we see a comment that we don't think belongs in the thread, we can move the comment to a tag page that explains the problem. We can also, optionally, give you a warning or a one-week suspension.

Here at Lifehacker, the tag pages we may move out-of-place comments to include:

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#offtopic: For comments that are just aren't relevant to the conversation at hand.

#offensive: For any comment that we find offensive, including comments containing excessive profanity, hate speech, or attacks on other commenters.

#spam: For junk that's clearly written by robots. Luckily we don't actually have much of this.

#tldr: This is a bit of a misnomer, but the idea is this: If you make an uninformed comment that makes it clear you didn't read the post, we'll move your comment here.

In the future, we may also use these powers for light as well as dark—promoting great comments to #commentoftheday or something of that ilk. For now, though, it gives us the opportunity to bring a lot more clarity into our comment admin process, and helps commenters understand what doesn't fly.